Category: Start-ups

Yi He, a renowned cryptocurrency evangelist and OKCoin’s co-founder, today joined Binance.
Binance is a new Shanghai-based digital asset exchange overarched by Changpeng Zhao’s Beijie Technology. It has been amazingly appreciated by the crypto-community for offering zero-fee trading and surprisingly faster processing speeds of up to 1.4 million transactions/second. And now with Yi He holdi...

Blockchain market is increasingly witnessing grand ventures and strategic partnerships among key players to leverage upon one another’s strengths and capital. One such strategic partnership that is in the buzz nowadays is the investment partnership being initiated between Monkey Capital, the blockchain-based hedge fund, and Digital Developers Fund (DDF), another popular blockchain-based trading ...

B2B blockchain platform Blockpool has raised close to $218,000 as the campaign touches its halfway point on the calendar.
The Token Exchange Campaign (TEC), which started on the 1st of May 2017, and will run until the 30th of June 2017, has set out to offer a total of 25 million BPL tokens to the participants, but without a price tag. Blockpool supports the idea of a fair and equal distribution...

Unocoin is one of the top Bitcoin exchanges in India. The company, which started operations in December 2013, lets its users buy, sell, hold or send bitcoins from its bitcoin wallet service. The company also offers the service of merchant payments to the users.
With a mission “to bring Bitcoin to billions”, Unocoin was founded in July of 2013 and established its headquarters in Karnataka, ...

The potential applications of blockchain technology in emerging economies like India is huge. The second most populous country is also home to a huge number of startups in a range of sectors. In order to keep up with the current requirements and emerging trends, Future Group — a well-known Indian consumer retail giant has launched an accelerator in Bangalore, India.
The new Future Group accel...

London had gained a reputation for being the financial hub of Europe. The capital of United Kingdom has been in the forefront of Fintech innovation, thanks to various initiatives in the past. But with Brexit, things are slowly falling apart. By moving away from the European Union, London has lost the charm of being the gateway to Europe for many companies.
As the country becomes less attracti...

Last year, a conference held by Russia Today brought together the world’s most prominent journalists to exchange ideas on shape-shifting powers. There, Arnab Goswami from India raised an important issue - about hegemony of western media. He stated that the US and the UK together contributes to the 70% of the source of global news; that the global narrative in terms of news is hugely controlled....

The only moral way to break the rigid finance laws is, to reform them. And as it appears, the South Korean government is leaving no stone unturned in doing the same.
The hint comes from Yim Jong-yong, the Chairman of South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC), who recently presented a promising “FinTech development roadmap”. The message read that the commission has removed irration...

The applications of blockchain technology are proving to be endless. Name a challenge and it can probably be solved using Bitcoin's underlying technology. Provenance, a social enterprise has proven it by adopting the technology for supply chain management, effectively tackling illegal fishing and human rights abuses.
Project Provenance Limited, based out of the United Kingdom offers blockchain ...

The digital currency economy is gradually moving towards the user-generated online content market. There are plenty of digital currency based social media platforms making an appearance in the recent days to help content creators monetize their work.
Steem is one such platform which has already made its mark in the digital currency segment with its own cryptotoken. While Steem tokens happen to ...

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